Welcome to the podcast!

In this episode  we interviewed Toastmasters International Past President Pat Johnson and we discussed Pathways Learning Experience (formerly known as R.E.P. or the Revitalized Education Program. We recorded the interview at Blab.  We did run into a few technical challenges along the way, so the quality the recording does have a few problems here and there. We’d like to thank D95 Chief Ambassador-  Ellen Hermes and D59 Chief Ambassador- Celeste Brown, who stepped in while Pat was trying to join us on camera. Thank you to Lorraine Taylor for moderating this interview, when I ran into problems with my network connection. Thank you to Sevetlana Rakhimova who did a lot of work behind the scenes (especially helping us to run the chat).  Thank you to Pat Johnson for joining us in the session, enduring  some trials and tribulations along the way, and for being so flexible. Thank you to everyone who joined us live at Blab. As mentioned earlier I had some network problems during the interview, so that is why my role wasn’t so active during the interview. Pat Johnson and our other guests shared a lot of valuable  information and experiences with us.  We hope that you enjoy the session.

We hope that you’ve had a chance to watch the interview that we did with Victoria Ferrer, Region 11 Advisor (Europe, Middle East, and Africa). and please spread the word. We have several more episodes in the pipeline.  If you have an idea for episode, you know someone that you think is doing  or has done interesting or amazing things, we’d like to talk to them. please add a comment or contact us. We’ve enjoyed out Blab sessions so far and will be looking at doing some more of this and who knows what else we’ll try. Stay tuned.  Happy Toastmastering.

• An article on Pathways Learning Experience in the July 2016 issue of the Toastmasters Magazine
• Pathways Learning Experience at Toastmasters dot org.
• Pat Johnson can be found on Facebook here.
• D95 Chief Ambassador- Ellen Hermens on Facebook
• Check out the D59 Chief Ambassador- Celeste Brown’s website here
• Witty Storytellers, a newly forming Online Toastmasters club, where Svetlana is the President, has a Facebook page here.
• You can watch this video on the Toastmasters Podcast Europe’s YouTube video channel here.
• The podcast theme song comes from the Famous Toastmasters of Wiesbaden, Germany

Look for the next episode, in the coming weeks.

Note the picture above was provided by Pat Johnson